TLA Releasing has picked up North America, UK and Irish rights to Simon Pearce’s British gang culture thriller Shank.
The distributor has scheduled a limited release in September for North America and the UK before DVD roll-out at the end of the year.
TLA’s director of production Derek Curl and Shank’s writer and producer Christian Martin negotiated the deal. Shank follows the life of a teenage gang member who is secretly gay. Wayne Virgo stars.
Action thriller Shank, the company’s first production from Gunslinger, brought in $417,736 across 86 screens.
Daniel Brocklebank is to star in Release, which has been written and will be directed by Christian Martin and Darren Flaxstone.Martin and Flaxstone previously wrote the script for British gang culture thriller Shank and will be making their directing debut with Release. Shooting will start on the July 24 2009 ...
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